Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

davster · Post by **davster** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:54 am

Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?

jaweb · Post by **jaweb** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:11 am

[quote="davster"]Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?[/quote]

my husband applied on 2 March and still nothing

PAK321 · Post by **PAK321** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:14 am

davster wrote:Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?

I applied 17th DEC 14, still waiting.

davster · Post by **davster** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:31 am

jaweb wrote:
davster wrote:Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?

my husband applied on 2 March and still nothing

Jaweb - it seems to be a longer wait than the current trend..Feb was a great month it seems, and March is slower one, in comparison.

Lets hope we get our approvals soon!

davster · Post by **davster** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:32 am

PAK321 wrote:
davster wrote:Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?
I applied 17th DEC 14, still waiting.

oh no

- i hope you get approval soon PAK321!

mfaheem · Post by **mfaheem** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:35 am

davster wrote:
PAK321 wrote:
davster wrote:Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?
I applied 17th DEC 14, still waiting.
oh no - i hope you get approval soon PAK321!

I applied on 20th Jan 15, still waiting.

apocolypto · Post by **apocolypto** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:41 am

waitwaitwait wrote:
The letter says I need to contact my council for the ceremony within 21 days. I am doing this but not getting through to them. will keep trying for the rest of the day
Please pray for a successful, swift, trouble-free and fast turn around of my application.

Congratulations, i received letter dated 31/03/2015 as well on 10/04/2015 and I called council twice and they said they were busy so they will call me later or monday, they didn't call on Friday so i will need to wait, did you manage to book yours?
Also I'm a bit confused as some people ln forum have mentioned they received approval and waiting for invitation letter, are there 2 separate letters?
I have received one which says " citizenship invitation"
Application for British citizenship by ...
I am pleased to tell you that this application for b c has been successful. To complete the process you will need to attend a citizenship ceremony...

So is this the one through which i can book ceremony and get certificate or would i be getting something else?
Its a bit confusing and worrying as it took 6 months to get the approval already.

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From what I understand, once you get the approval letter from HO (which we both did), you/we need to book ceremony date with our local council ( the number is provided in the approval letter), Council should also have received a copy of the same approval letter that you and I received. they will then book the ceremony (either the free or a private, depends on us)

Now, I did/am doing the same and have spoken to council twice. Friday & today and they are saying they have not received my paperwork from HO yet so they can't book the ceremony yet. they have asked me to contact them again on Wednesday.

This is really strange as, the approval letter is dated 31/03 and is sent via 2nd class post to me and I received it 2 days ago. how come council have not received their copy yet??

This is really strange!! have you tried calling the council again today? don't wait on them to call you, just call them yourself.

Let me know how it goes!

Thesmalik · Post by **Thesmalik** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:31 pm

davster wrote:
PAK321 wrote:
davster wrote:Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?
I applied 17th DEC 14, still waiting.
oh no - i hope you get approval soon PAK321!

i applied 9th of November 2014 and waiting

davster · Post by **davster** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:31 pm

hopefully the waiting game will end soon for everyone, especially the ones who've been waiting for a long time!

mavdi · Post by **mavdi** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:50 pm

davster wrote:
jaweb wrote:
davster wrote:Anyone else applied on 16/03/15 and still waiting?

my husband applied on 2 March and still nothing
Jaweb - it seems to be a longer wait than the current trend..Feb was a great month it seems, and March is slower one, in comparison.

Lets hope we get our approvals soon!

Many Feb applicants are still waiting, including me

sircas · Post by **sircas** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 4:26 pm

Came back from work and my neighbour handed me a registered brown envelope. Opened it and hooray my application was successful. I waited exactly 5 months and One week. This was the longest period I have ever had to wait for anything.

For guys waiting keep having faith. God's time is the best.
Please see my time line below bearing in mind I applied from overseas (Germany)

Eligibility criteria: ILR and Exemption from Immigrational Control due being in HM Forces(Army)
Language criteria met : Life in The UK Test + ESOL
Method of application: Self (Posted from Overseas Germany)
Date of application: 08/10/2014
Payment method: Cheque
Date of receipt by UKBA: Not sure
Date of acknowledgment: 16/10/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 17/10/2014
Date approval received: 13 April 15 Dated (2 April 15)
Date of ceremony: Waiting a Call back from British Embassy Düsseldorf.

san2014 · Post by **san2014** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:06 pm

My partner applied 9 May 2014 and still waiting

jaweb · Post by **jaweb** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:07 pm

[quote="san2014"]My partner applied 9 May 2014 and still waiting

[/quote]

Oh Gosh. Its nearly a year now :-/
Good luck!

waitwaitwait · Post by **waitwaitwait** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:38 pm

"From what I understand, once you get the approval letter from HO (which we both did), you/we need to book ceremony date with our local council ( the number is provided in the approval letter), Council should also have received a copy of the same approval letter that you and I received. they will then book the ceremony (either the free or a private, depends on us)

Now, I did/am doing the same and have spoken to council twice. Friday & today and they are saying they have not received my paperwork from HO yet so they can't book the ceremony yet. they have asked me to contact them again on Wednesday.

This is really strange as, the approval letter is dated 31/03 and is sent via 2nd class post to me and I received it 2 days ago. how come council have not received their copy yet??

This is really strange!! have you tried calling the council again today? don't wait on them to call you, just call them yourself.

Let me know how it goes!"

Hi "Apocolypto" I'm sorry to hear about your situation. It's annoying after waiting for approval the council hasn't received your paperwork,terrible init. Also you are right they don't bother calling back so i called them again Monday morning where they said we haven't unpacked the certificates received from HO so they will call me back. Eventually they did calll back after 2 hours and said yes we have received your certificate and earliest public ceremony for free will be 20may that too in a council which is 1hr15 min away from me unless I want to pay £95 and do private one any day. I said there is no way I'm gonna wait till may so lets do private,she booked me in for this Wednesday afternoon. I hope it goes smooth and i can send my British pp application on Thursday. Good luck to you i hope they get your paperwork soon.

esmsi · Post by **esmsi** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:57 am

Its waiting game.
Applied 23 feb 2015 and still waiting.

bruschetta · Post by **bruschetta** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:16 am

Guys,

anyone who applied (application received by the HO) around the 30th of March and got the payment processed?

I spoke with my solicitor and looks like that due to fee increase, there has been a spike in applications to submit them before the April date and now there is a huge backlog.

Let me know

Cheers

Bruschetta

JohnNelson.J · Post by **JohnNelson.J** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:18 am

bruschetta wrote:Guys,

anyone who applied (application received by the HO) around the 30th of March and got the payment processed?

I spoke with my solicitor and looks like that due to fee increase, there has been a spike in applications to submit them before the April date and now there is a huge backlog.

Let me know

Cheers

Bruschetta

My Application was received on 30-Mar (Royal Mail Tracking), no fee has been deducted. From what I'm seeing on the forum, this could be tomorrow. fingers crossed

egoneo · Post by **egoneo** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:55 am

bruschetta wrote:Guys,

anyone who applied (application received by the HO) around the 30th of March and got the payment processed?

I spoke with my solicitor and looks like that due to fee increase, there has been a spike in applications to submit them before the April date and now there is a huge backlog.

Let me know

Cheers

Bruschetta

I applied on the 31st (receive on 1st April). I'd imagine most people would apply as soon as they are eligible for Naturalisation, so i don't imagine this "Spike" in applications would be stray too far from the normal, because either you are eligible on that date or you aren't. Even then i'd imagine the home office can anticipate this "spike" because they've been increasing fees every year since their inception, so they should allocate more workers when they anticipate it too happen.

bruschetta · Post by **bruschetta** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:38 am

So far I can see that either because of the Easter holidays or for other reasons, the payments seem to have slow down a bit

In my case I pushed my solicitor to send the application through before the new fees kicked in

As for the HO ability to cope with picks and drops - I'm not sure how flexible they are with their pool of resources. I think they are fairly inflexible so if they receive more applications, they will have more waiting time (in conjunction with holidays in particular).

Fingers crossed I will have the payment processed within the next couple of days

minku · Post by **minku** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:34 am

Eligibility criteria: 5yr + 2yr ILR
Method of application: NCS (council name) or Postal - Postal
Date of application posted - 28/03/2015
Date of receipt by UKBA: Waiting
Date of debit of fees: Waiting
Date of receipt of acknowledgement:
Date of receipt of approval:
Date of Ceremony:

Anybody with the same status or any suggestions to find out where i stand?

JamesBrodie · Post by **JamesBrodie** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:11 pm

minku, based on other applications, your fee will probably be taken later this week.

Maliksahb · Post by **Maliksahb** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:50 pm

Maliksahb wrote:Eligibility criteria: 3 years British Spouse
Language criteria met: IELTS + Life in The UK Test
Method of application: Postal
Council name: N/A
Date of application: 25/03/2015
Application Received : 26/03/2015
Payment method: Credit Card
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 13/04/2015
Date of acknowledgment letter received: 14/04/2015 via email
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

It looks they are taking more time then usual

bruschetta · Post by **bruschetta** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:00 pm

Agreed - it seems that for apps sent around last week of March is taking about 20 days to process a payment.......

bruschetta · Post by **bruschetta** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:20 pm

My balance just dropped of the right amount - payment done

bruschetta · Post by **bruschetta** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:24 pm

bruschetta wrote:The clock starts ticking from today - wish me good luck guys - will update in due course

Eligibility criteria: 5 Years + 1 Year ILR - EU Citizen
Language criteria met : Life in the UK , UK MBA
Current nationality: Italian
Method of application: Solicitor
Date of application: 30/03/2015
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 31/03/2015 (Royal Mail Tracking)
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 14/04/2015 (Update#1)
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

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